Director, Executive and Professional MBA Programs

Biography

Richard Daniels is Professor of Management and Director of Executive and Professional
MBA Programs in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He received
his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at
UCLA in 1986. His research interests focus primarily on operations planning and control
issues, specifically multi-criteria production scheduling, resource flexibility and
its impact on operational performance, and incorporating uncertainty into operational
decision-making. He teaches courses on quantitative methods, service operations management,
operations strategy, and supply chain management. Prior to joining the faculty at
the University of Georgia, Professor Daniels taught in the College of Management at
the Georgia Institute of Technology, and at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
He has published extensively in prominent management journals, including Management
Science, Operations Research, Journal of Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics,
IIE Transactions, and Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. His research has been funded
by the National Science Foundation, the Center for International Business Education
and Research, Northern Telecom, Inc., and IBM. He serves on the editorial board of
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and is an associate editor for IIE
Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics. He has taught in numerous executive education
programs, including professional development programs for Lockheed-Martin, Scientific
Atlanta, UPS, and Apple South. He has also consulted extensively on projects with
the Coca-Cola Company, General Dynamics, Northern Telecom, and Scientific Atlanta.